People of the Industrial Era
Inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Machine that removed seeds from cotton quickly
What is the cotton gin?
Law that allowed the building of the transcontinental railroad
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
Term for movement of people from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
Worker who learns a trade from a skilled mentor
What is an apprentice?
American inventor who promoted interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney
System of dots and dashes used to send messages
What is morse code?
Location where the transcontinental railroad was completed
What is Promontory Utah?
Building with small, crowded apartments
What is a tenement?
Money paid by workers to belong to a union
What are union dues?
British mechanic who brought textile knowledge to the U.S.
Who is Samuel Slater?
Process that made steel cheaper and easier to produce
What is the Bessemer Process?
Railroad company that built west from Omaha
What is Union Pacific?
Group of people who opposed immigration (starts with an N)
Who are nativists?
Average weekly hours many factories worked during the Industrial Era.
What is 60 hours per week?
Labor leader who helped found the AFL
Who is Samuel Gompers
First successful commercial steamboat
What is the Clermont?
Railroad company that built east from California
What is Central Pacific?
Country where 1 million people died from starvation and another 2 million left to come to United States.
What is Ireland?
Refusal to work until demands are met
What is a strike?
Photographer who exposed child labor conditions
Who is Lewis Hine?
Manufacturing method using identical parts
What are interchangeable parts?
Midwestern city that became a major railroad hub
What is Chicago?
Disease name that killed the potato crop and caused famine. Starts with a B.
What is Blight?
Group that represents workers in negotiations
What is a labor union?